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No. 253,632. Patented Feb. 14,1882;

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BARB FOR WIRE FENCES.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY J. SOHMEISER, OF BURLINGTON, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO OTTOV. HOFFMANN, OF SAME PLACE.

BARB FOR WIRE FENCES.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Batent No. 253,632, dated February14, .1882.

Application filed November 18, 1881. (ModeL) To all whom it may concernBe it known that- I, HENRY J. SoHMErsER, of Burlington, in the county ofDes Moinesand State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Barb forWire Fences; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the same, reference being bad to theaccompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, and whichshows a perspective view of my improved barb.

My invention relates to barbs for wire fences; and the nature of theinvention is to furnish two pointed barbs pointing in oppositedirections on a single strand of fence-cable, using an unbroken wire forstrand and barb. To accomplish this I take a single strand of wire, A,bend it at a right angle atB, and again bend it at 0 back upon itself,causing it to cross the line of the strand A at right angles to thepoint D the same distance as from B to O. I At D the wire is again bentback upon itself at right angles with the main strand A, and carriedover and across the cross-strand O D and the leg B O to B, where it isclosely and tightly twisted around, passing out beneath the same I claimas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A barb with two prongs pointing in opposite directions in one piece withthe strand A, formed by bending the strand A at points B, G, and D, andtwisting the same backward, over, under, and around the double wire atB, and leading it forward in the line of the strand A, the ends OH) andD being trimmed to points in such manner as not to cut through the wire,5

substantially as and for the purpose described.

HENRY J. SOHMEISER. Witnesses:

J. G. STONE, THOMAS HEDGE, Jr.

